Áine O'toole
Senior Researcher at The University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolÁine O'toole is a senior researcher at the University of Edinburgh with eight years' experience applying real-time viral sequencing, phylogenetics, and bioinformatics to outbreak response as a Co-Investigator on the Wellcome-funded ARTIC Network. Her work spans hands-on sequencing analysis, development of bioinformatic tools, and maintenance of key open-source infrastructure such as contributions to the pango-designation lineage tool used in SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. Trained through a PhD in Hosts, Pathogens & Global Health and an MSc in Molecular Evolution, she combines deep evolutionary genetics expertise with practical software engineering and release management. Based in Edinburgh, she brings a track record of translating genomic data into actionable public-health insights and has experience integrating research code into production-ready pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Hosts Pathogens & Global Health, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Hosts Pathogens & Global Health at The University of EdinburghLoreto BalbrigganBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Genetics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Genetics at Trinity College DublinMaster of Science (MSc) Molecular Evolution, Master of Science (MSc) Molecular Evolution at Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
English, Irish, French
Github Skills (7)
python10
package-management10
version-control9
git9
command-line-interface8
release-management7
release-automation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cov-lineages/pango-designation
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Repository for suggesting new lineages that should be added to the current scheme
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 101 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Áine primarily focused on updating the `__init__.py` file within the `pango_designation` package, likely to manage versioning. They also merged changes from the `master` branch, indicating a role in integrating and potentially releasing code. The updates suggest maintaining and potentially releasing new versions of the `pango_designation` tool. These changes involve core package settings.
schemelineages
cov-lineages/grinch
Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
global report investigating novel coronavirus haplotypes
Contributions:1 release, 29 PRs, 126 pushes in 3 years 7 months
haplotypesorangereportquantilenovel-coronavirus
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